Well, a year ago today, I registered codehaus.org. Kurt Schrader announced it publically about a week later, but the registrar considers today to be the founding day for the haus.

Created On:26-Feb-2003 15:55:34 UTC

Since then, we've had the first irregular Haus Party, picked up a corporate sponsor or two, birthed quite a few new projects (some which admittedly should probably die), and overall wildly exceeded any expectations I had when I spent the $35 on the domain.

Without the amazing hausmates, the Codehaus would've been nothing than rebranded Werken Company projects. Thankfully, Werken things make up a much smaller percentage of the goings-on of the haus. So, if you care to celebrate, raise a stein of brew and cheer in another year.

Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks was a good session that I attended at the ETech Conference in San Diego.

Technologists consume Big-Gulp-loads of information, and write, code, and edit reams of output. Author Charlie Stross notes that he reads and digests more in his morning bookmarks than most literate 18th-century readers would process in a year. Linus Torvalds and other open source leaders hold down day jobs, and still have time to create wonders in their spare time. Everyone at ETech juggles amounts of email that would stun an ox.

While not necessarily a causal relationship, the sampled geeks tended to use plaintext, shells, and email. And index cards. Lots and lots of index cards.

Rebecca, a self-proclaimed "east-coast girl" declared San Diego to be "too sunny".

I'll be dragging my wife to California for her birthday. Meanwhile, I'll also be attending the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference next week. Isn't that a great birthday gift for a non-geeky wife?